Parole could be granted hers would be assigned. Mortgages on quotas under such proclamation to escapees from would be eliminated. Communist persecution who have fled to any Under the existing law the annual quota of nonCommunist area. including Hungarian 154.657 is computed by taking onesixth of refugees who have migrated not only to 1 percent of the white population in 1920. Austria but to some other nonCommunist less Western Hemisphere immigrants and country. their descendants. If the total population Section 5 sets up a procedure whereby the in 1920 had been used for this computation. immigration status of parolees may be adthe quota figure would have constituted oneseventh of 1 percent. Tjusted to that of a lawful permanent resiThe bill applies the dent. The Attorney General could grant latter percentage to the 1950 total popula- such adjustment of status in his discretion tion of the United States as defined in the after the alien has been in the United States act.
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